Pollution in Cebu, Philippines
Air pollution data from World Health Organization  | |
|---|---|
| PM10 | 54 |
| PM2.5 | 28 |
| PM10 Pollution Level: | High |
Pollution in Cebu, Philippines
| Air Pollution | 75.00 | High | |
| Drinking Water Pollution and Inaccessibility | 52.56 | Moderate | |
| Dissatisfaction with Garbage Disposal | 75.32 | High | |
| Dirty and Untidy | 74.68 | High | |
| Noise and Light Pollution | 65.67 | High | |
| Water Pollution | 81.25 | Very High | |
| Dissatisfaction to Spend Time in the City | 72.81 | High | |
| Dissatisfaction with Green and Parks in the City | 68.83 | High |
Purity and Cleanliness in Cebu, Philippines
| Air quality | 25.00 | Low | |
| Drinking Water Quality and Accessibility | 47.44 | Moderate | |
| Garbage Disposal Satisfaction | 24.68 | Low | |
| Clean and Tidy | 25.32 | Low | |
| Quiet and No Problem with Night Lights | 34.33 | Low | |
| Water Quality | 18.75 | Very Low | |
| Comfortable to Spend Time in the City | 27.19 | Low | |
| Quality of Green and Parks | 31.17 | Low |
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Last update: September 2021
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Crime is a major problem here; not just for tourists but for locals too. There's a good reason why virtually all homes here are protected by barb wire on their fences/perimeter and bars on their windows or guards at community gates. As my servants and family members can attest from personal experience, armed robbery is commonplace. So are burglaries. Pickpockets are everywhere and many (most?) folk are eventually victimized by them.
I've faced down a trio of street thugs and I've thwarted thieves attempting to scale my fence and invade my property -- but only because I am twice their size. My home was burglarized 3 times before I fortified it with razor wire. On separate occasions, two drug addicts have been shot in front of my house and one of them died. A cab driver crashed into my retaining wall after being stabbed by his passenger. And this all happened in a normal residential neighborhood.
Criminals do favor weaker, smaller, victims, so being big and tall is a definite advantage here.
As for Cebu City's future, you said that (and I quote): "Cebu will only get better in the coming years." I've lived here over 13 years now and have watched traffic, pollution and crime get progressively worse. There's next to no city planning here: there's no room to expand roads and endemic government corruption assures progress will be painstakingly slow. Water utilities are a joke: no water pressure and new service requests are usually denied (as it is in my case). I had to have my water well extended because the water level dropped too low. The Philippines has the third-most-expensive electric service in all of Asia.
With air conditioning and cheap taxi/Grab service, life here can be pretty good. But you need enough money to fortify your home and pay high
electricity bills. With the low cost of living here, the tradeoffs above are acceptable to some, like me. But it's certainly not for everyone.
This type of pollution is known to be carcinogenic, and such vehicles would be taken off the road in any other civilized country. There have been attempts to replace the jeepneys with clean buses but the drivers union always stands in the way. It's ironic since they breathe the same air. Sadly, most schools are also along the main roads, so the kids are breathing this and many people have asthma. As in other developing countries, there are also a lot of cooking fires in the evening that also add to the smoke and haze, making it very murky.
In addition to this issue of air pollution, the creeks and estuaries are filled with garbage that has washed downstream or been dumped, and many streets also have trash alongside the road. The people just throw the garbage and don't seem to care. Yes, I see it all the time. Of course it is more difficult when there are no trash cans and few dumpsters, but if they cared it seems they would demand that something be done about these issues. Hopefully they will.